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    script copies off as large wodfcs as the' Wfcole Dtfty of Man , and yet it was well known that the writers were not the real authors of those works- * Another of the reputed authors of the book in question was Mr . William Fttlman , amai * um $ is to the celebrated Dr . Hammond ; imt this etaina appears equally

    obscure and questionable with those of the others ; especially !? any reliance may be placed on a report which was current in 1684 , that the real author of the said book died in the course of that year { or father in that case his claim may be said to be effectually invalidated and disproved ) , for we are assured that

    Fulman was alive in 1688 . This book , together with Dr . Hammond ' s Practical Catechism , have been represented as the main props of reKgion in the church of England during the profligate reign of Charles II * This , Sir , is all the information I am able to give at present on the subject of Episcopus ' s inquiry ; others of your correspondents may probably hav-e it in

    their power to give him further satisfaction , in which case I heartily join with him in requesting them to transmit to you the wished-for intelligence . The author of the Whale Duty of Man deserved well of his country , and his name , it' possible , ought to be rescued from oblivion .

    Before I conclude this paper I beg leave , Sir , to m&ke & few remarks on Mr . Palmer ' s communication in your 13 th and 14 th pages . It was really not my intention ar wish to offend this good and venerable man , or give him the smallest pain > when I observed in the sketch of the life of J ohn EvaB § , that he had strangely and unaccountably given Dr . Evans two

    fathers ; and yet I ought not , perhaps , to wonder that the ob * - servation should excite his displeasure , as it seems to carry with it an appearance as if I meant that he had designedly done so , which was very far from being my meaning . I thought it indeed a most strange and unaccountable blunder , and very disgraceful to the work in which it appeared , as it argued a inost unpardonable inattention in the conductors of it , and tended in no

    small measure to sink its credit with its readers , as a work that thej ~ could not very safely place much reliance on its statements . As to the list of errata-of which Mr , P . speaks , I really had not seen it , having by me only a few numbers of the third volume * I was a subscriber to his first edition of the work above thirty years ago , and as I had that by me I did not become a subscriber to this last edition ; but had I seen the first volume * and

    * The most remarkable instance of that kind that has fallen in my w , ay » wms a manuscript copy of the Eikon Bazilike , the best specimen perhaps of fine writiag , / on so large a scale , that can l > e found in the kingdom . The penman was a Cheshire schoolmaster ( I forget his name ) , and the copy cost the gentleman in whose pp ** cession it theft was , a hundred guineas , which be did not thijafc a ( kar Jjareoi *} .

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    12 Reply to Mr . Palmer .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 72, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/16/